Even on a lake where strange and wondrous craft are not unusual, a new motorized tiki-bar raft is going to be a remarkable and remarked-upon sight during this boating season. Launched onto Lake George from a crane at the Harris Bay Yacht Club on the first day of summer, the boat-bar hybrid is believed to be the only one of its kind outside of Florida, where the first version was launched in February by a new company called Cruisin' Tikis.

A new floating tiki bar was launched on Lake George. Video is accelerated. (Steve Barnes/Times Union)

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Larry Davis, an entrepreneur whose varied holdings include the Rensselaer-based tech firm CommSoft, saw the first Cruisin' Tiki in the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida, where, as he describes it, the craft so enchanted him he pursued it until he could read the name on the sign.

"I've bought a lot of (crap) over the years. This could be the happiest purchase I've ever made," Davis said.